FxrAndy Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Has any one else recieved unsolicited paper mail recently, it seems that our addresses are not safe, a watch supplier may have given out our addresses to a third party, below are a couple of photos of the mail i found on my return to work today. I have used the same address for only watches and one other item from china, if this mail comes from one of the people that i have used before then it is not a problem but if it is coming from some one i have never dealt with then i am VERY concerned. If more of us have recieved this sort of mail let me know and we can try to work out who is the leak. The mail made it through uk mail services in the 24th June so has been waiting a week or two for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoTone Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Interesting... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katerchen Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 ...but if it is coming from some one i have never dealt with then i am VERY concerned. Frightening!! Question: Did you already try to get in contact with the sender?? for ex. email? Just curious on what theyll reply on your question WHERE they got your address from?? If this is sourced or hacked(!) from 3rd party THIS is indeed serious matter!!! Dont want to think any further... Everythings possible then and most terrific and horrible nightmares can come true: 1. blackmailing 2. mail from the high court of swiss w-horology authorities 3. assaults with anthrax-letters ... or the worst of it all: Imagine your once trusted Rep-Approved-Dealer standing right inside YOUR doorway tryin to sell you the latest model in vacuum cleaning I definitely dunno what i would say... hmm... maybe i would ask "Are you Neil?" Lol No way... this is serious business here! KEep this infos streaming... i would as well bear some bad feelings in my stomach receiving mail like this!! George Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted July 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 I dont think that getting intouch with the sender as i imagine they sent more than one or two, I know the 6 people that i have given that address out to and one of them is in hongkonk, and one in Thailand so that leaves 4! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katerchen Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 hmm... maybe your right keeping quite is better. I just cant imagine you beeing the only one having received such "advertising" just curious: Are you based in EU? George Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
By-Tor Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 @Fxrandy: Have you ever bought from the dealers outside this site, places like Ioffer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corgi Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Yet another reason I don't shop by credit card with the mega dealers. They sell off credit card informations too. I have a credit card which I started specifically for buying watches from the mega dealers - I only shopped with them and another very reputable Jewish online store from New York. Well eventually my bill came in and someone in South Africa went on quite the shopping spree! Card immediately taken to bank and a serious fraud investigation has been underway for the past several months. Frankly I am not surprised but if you ask me Pay"Pal" is still the "least worst" way to send money online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted July 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Never, ebay a very long time ago but then only from europeans, it must have been 5 years agao last time i used ebay from the east and then i used a different address. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddy333 Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 How do you know they did not get your mailing address through the usual 'legitimate' sources (the same place all your other junk mail gets your address from)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted July 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Dont want to say too much about the address used but it does not get any junk mail, not realy possible, i will pm you freddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surpur Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 I got an email today for my 88 year old mother in law, who has never been doing anything on the computer and has no email address and we have never done anything for her through computer. Correct spelling of her Japanese name... Oh - by the way, it was for Viagra!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted July 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 THIS WAS NOT EMAIL THOUGH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surpur Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 THIS WAS NOT EMAIL THOUGH! Yeah - but how did they get her name, she lives in a nursing home and how did they conect that to our email address??? Spaming just gets weirder and more anoying by the day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 Ok guys cut the jokes Andy does have a valid point. When you sign up for anything online now-a-days there is always a confidentiality claus which you tick if you don't mind them sharing your addy, same with paper contracts. Simple reason for this is that a lot of these places (at one time) once they had your details would simply start selling them to all and sundry. If as Andy suggests that the addy used has a certain level of security then it is possible that a dealer may be farming out details for a few extra bucks, only way we will know is to see if more turn up. Ken A word of warning the letters look very much to me as the typlical Chinese Uni student scam, this is where a couple of savy students go to lengths of even building very impressive websites and mail out's (Email mostly) but all they ever do is take the money and never send out, when the heat gets to much that scrap the site and start another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robj Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 I read on Repgeek yesterday i think it was that some members had been getting spam email in accounts they had set up and only used for buying watches from the trusted dealers some I think even pinpointed which dealers. Either they are being hacked or more likely they or their payment processors are selling leads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddy333 Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 I got an email today for my 88 year old mother in law... Oh - by the way, it was for Viagra!! So did it help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronus Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 I read on Repgeek yesterday i think it was that some members had been getting spam email in accounts they had set up and only used for buying watches from the trusted dealers some I think even pinpointed which dealers. Either they are being hacked or more likely they or their payment processors are selling leads Perhaps the dealers themselves sold the information? Why do you think a payment processor would do that before the dealer would ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Jones Posted July 13, 2008 Report Share Posted July 13, 2008 Maybe, dealers which make dropshipping - now have competition from their china coworkers ? They have all to send letter with information that they can sell replica goods too and know that you in the past ordered replica goods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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